I've found that when I build a system, it's worth the initial effort to install drives one by one to see how they get mapped to names. Then I put labels on the drives and SATA cables. If there were room to label the actual SATA ports on the motherboard and cards, I would.
While this isn't foolproof, it gives me a bit more reassurance in the [inevitable] event of a drive failure. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul Bruce <p...@cais.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > I'm just about to build a ZFS system as a home file server in raidz, but I > have one question - pre-empting the need to replace one of the drives if it > ever fails. > How on earth do you determine the actual physical drive that has failed ? > I've got the while zpool status thing worked out, but how do I translate > the c1t0d0, c1t0d1 etc.. to a real physical driver. > I can just see myself looking at the 6 drives, and thinking "mmmm..... > c1t0d1.... i think that's *this* one"...... einee menee minee moe > P > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
